This is not Good

[George16]

I am not questioning them. I'm just saying that the bullet was not true vertically when it was soldered to the board. The negative terminal is fine and has about 2mm of clearance. Since it is leaning towards the case, it is being push away from the case when I inserted the male connector. This could mean undue stress on the board to bullet connection.

Now this is questioning. Aren't you an engineer? If you are, then you should know what happens when there is stress being added into a connection or joint, be it mechanical or electrical :.

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by George16

I am not questioning them. I'm just saying that the bullet was not true vertically when it was soldered to the board. The negative terminal is fine and has about 2mm of clearance. Since it is leaning towards the case, it is being push away from the case when I inserted the male connector. This could mean undue stress on the board to bullet connection.

Now this is questioning. Aren't you an engineer? If you are, then you should know what happens when there is stress being added into a connection or joint, be it mechanical or electrical :.

Everything is subject to some amount of loading (the proper term here, since we don't know the exact nature of this loading). Its not until that load is too large for the parts to react that your devils will come out.

[J3110]

Originally Posted by George16

Now this is questioning. Aren't you an engineer? If you are, then you should know what happens when there is stress being added into a connection or joint, be it mechanical or electrical :.

That is exactly how I feel about the tight connections as well. Went through the exact same song and dance minus putting the shrink tubing on the connectors. Not too keen on the idea of mechanical stress on a solder joint, myself.

I almost feel like I'm being whiney or something after all the flak castle's taken for the failed units and I should just shut up and be happy it works.

At any rate, I will remain unhappy about that little detail and only hope that if it is going to result in a failure that it happens within the warrenty period.
Once the warranty is up, I'm crackin the case and "fixing" anything I think needs fixing.

I am sure that as far as castle is concerned, there's nothing wrong with these points.